Intelligent Transportation Systems (ePub)

Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Energy and Environmental Perspective provides the foundation needed to understand the energy and environmental impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and develop applications that reduce the transportation network's carbon footprint. While transportation energy sources such as hybrid-electric technologies, bio-ethanol, and hydrogen fuel cells are emerging, these alternatives have yet to replace petroleum-powered engines. Consequently, there is a need to improve the efficiency of petroleum-based travel. Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Energy and Environmental Perspective shows how current and future ITS applications will improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce transportation system energy consumption and CO2 emission levels. Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Energy and Environmental Perspective begins by showing how the transportation sector contributes to the energy and environmental issues the world is currently facing. The book explores three main topics: 1) vehicle longitudinal motion modelling and traffic modelling, 2) modelling network-wide vehicle fuel consumption, energy consumption, and emission levels, and 3) developing ITS environmentally-friendly applications. It examines key vehicle and traffic technologies, along with the approaches needed to model vehicle fuel consumption and emission levels. The book provides an overview of traffic flow theory and routing algorithms, examining how ITS applications can enhance vehicle energy consumption levels and reduce vehicle emissions. The book concludes with reflections on the tools needed to achieve these objectives, and directions for future research.Consolidates the latest thinking from disparate places and never-before-published information into one resourceLinks quantitatively transportation activities and resulting vehicle emissionsNumerous application-oriented case studies throughoutFree access to author created open source software to model concepts explored in the bookAdditional learning aids include chapter objectives and discussion questions